Thank You, Lord!

Introduction
Question: How many people are found in the Gospel accounts that are recorded as having said thank you to the Lord? Just one?!

Luke 17:11-19
Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. 12 Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. 13 And they lifted up their voices and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us! 14 So when He saw them, He said to them, Go, show yourselves to the priests. And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed

15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, 16 and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. 17 So Jesus answered and said, Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? 18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner? 19 And He said to him, Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.

Luke 17:11-19

Them & Us A Similar Situation

Them & Us: A Similar Situation

Ten men crying out in Before we obeyed the desperation, seeking Gospel, we ourselves mercy. were in a desperate Their situation was situation. desperate! Separated from God! They were at a distance due to the disease of leprosy!

Ephesians 2:12
that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Ezekiel 18:20
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

James 1:15
Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

The Lord The Right Person for the Cure

The Lord Right Person for the Cure

Ten men standing at a The Lord God listens, He is attentive to our cry. distance, but upon seeing the Lord Jesus, He knows our struggles, they raised their voices! what were going through. When He saw them, More importantly than He said to them.. (14) anything, the Lord God is able to deal with the problem of sin.

The Lord Right Person for the Cure

With the lepers, the as they were going response of Jesus was they were healed! simple Go and show yourselves to the priests. (rf Lev. 13,14) However, if they are still infected, unclean with leprosy, why go to the priest?!

Romans 6:4
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

1 Peter 3:21
There is also an antitype which now saves usbaptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

The Lord Right Person for the Cure

With the lepers, the response of Jesus was simple Go and show yourselves to the priests. (rf Lev. 13,14) However, if they are still infected, unclean with leprosy, why go to the priest?! as they were going they were healed! In obedience, we cry out to God, an appeal, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!

Only One Returned To Thank & Praise The Lord

Only One Returned To Praise & Give Thanks

Only one stopped, turned around & came back to say thank you. He began glorifying God with a loud voice, and he fell on his face at Jesus feet, giving thanks to Him. One who was a Samaritan (a foreigner) was the only one who apparently saw Jesus for who He really was! Notice the Lord as he emphasizes this man being the only one that returned disappointed?

Only One Returned To Praise & Give Thanks

What about the nine though? Years of isolation, do you believe that they were eager to get to see their families? Did they have some catching up to do? Well the one that returned also experienced the same, yet his priorities were correct. He saw beyond the gift and beheld the GIVER!

Only One Returned To Praise & Give Thanks

Our English word thank We are mindful of the actually goes back to an significance, the meaning old German word of the gift. We are meaning, think. thinking of the giver! When we receive a gift, if The only appropriate and we stop to really think natural response to that about where that gift gift & great blessings is to came from, literally we fall down in thanks and are thankful. praise to God!

Thank You, Lord!

Conclusion

Hebrews 13:15
Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

Romans 12:1,2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

 Stand up and go; your Jesus was affirming that faith has made you well. this one of the ten lepers (19) was blessed with much Question: wasnt the more than being cured of man well already? leprosy. The word well in this verse goes back to a Are we well in the eyes word that refers to being of the Lord? saved, preserved, or restored. (rf. Acts 17:30)

Conclusion

Conclusion
Do our lives reflect one of Are you ready to say gratitude? thank you in your life? Or are there other things Say thank you by that we have journeyed making your appeal to on our way with in our God right now. lives, simply forgetting the Giver of ALL THINGS?

Thank You, Lord!